Neoclassical Citrine Gemstone with Putto and Goose

18TH-19TH CENTURY A.D.

1/2 in. (1.32 grams, 12 mm).

Plano-convex type with incuse scene of a putto kneeling on an arrow with one leg extended over it, holding the flight-feather of a bird in one hand and encouraging a goose to feed from the other hand; with traces of copper tooling; supplied with a museum-quality impression.

Provenance

Private English collection, formed between the late 1970s and early 1990s.
Private collection, London, UK.

Footnotes

Perhaps the putto is encouraging the goose to approach him so that he can pluck its flight-feathers for use on the shafts of his arrows.

CONDITION

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LOT 0389